Stand for Children Day
Kentucky Admission Day (1792)
Tennessee Admission Day (1796)
CNN Debuted (1980)
Radio Patented (1896)
American Indians Granted U.S. Citizenship (1924)
Stephen Douglas Died (1861)
First U.S. Space Walk (1965)
Tiananmen Square Demonstrations (1989)
First Supermarket Cart Introduced (1937)
National Doughnut Day
U.N. World Environment Day
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated (1968)
First AIDS Report Published (1981)
First Drive-In Movie Theater (1933)
D-Day (1944)
Homer Plessy Broke Segregation Laws (1892)
VCR Introduced (1975)
World Oceans Day
Prophet Muhammad Died (632)
Andrew Jackson Died (1845)
Satchel Paige Died (1983)
Charles Dickens Died (1870)
Hong Kong Leased to UK for 99 Years (1898)
Alcoholics Anonymous Founded (1935)
Ballpoint Pen Patented (1943)
Great Barrier Reef Discovered (1770)
Jacques Cousteau's Birthday (1910)
Diary Day
George H. W. Bush's Birthday (1924)
Anne Frank's Birthday (1929)
Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Killed (1963)
William Butler Yeats's Birthday (1865)
Benny Goodman Died (1986)
Presidents of North & South Korea Met (2000)
Flag Day
National Children's Day
Official U.S. Flag Adopted (1777)
First Commercial Computer Introduced (1951)
Arkansas Admission Day (1836)
Pres. James K. Polk Died (1849)
Valentina Tereshkova First Woman in Space (1963)
M.C. Escher's Birthday (1898)
Republic of Iceland Established (1944)
Napoleon Defeated at Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Sally Ride First American Woman in Space (1983)
First Official Game of Baseball (1846)
Juneteenth (Liberation of Slaves) (1865)
West Virginia Admission Day (1863)
Father's Day
Summer Begins
New Hampshire Admission Day (1788)
Mechanical Reaper Patented (1834)
WNBA Debuted (1997)
Pledge of Allegiance Recognized by Congress (1942)
Fred Astaire Died (1987)
First Typewriter Patented (1868)
Wilma Rudolph's Birthday (1940)
Clarence Thomas's Birthday (1948)
Jonas Salk Died (1995)
Term "Flying Saucers" First Used (1947)
Gen. Custer Died at Little Bighorn (1876)
George Orwell's Birthday (1903)
Eric Carle's Birthday (1929)
First Color TV Broadcast (1951)
Bicycle Patented (1819)
Inventor of the Thermometer Born (1824)
First Map of Human Genome Completed (2000)
Helen Keller's Birthday (1880)
First Newbery Medal Awarded (1922)
Paul Bunyan Day
World War I Began (1914)
Shakespeare's Theater Destroyed by Fire (1613)
Remote Control Introduced (1964)
Meteor Day
26th Amendment Changed Voting Age (1971)
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